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 "record_id": "CW-2022-0024",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0563",
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 "display_title": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur Woman v. State of West Bengal & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur Woman v. State of West Bengal & Ors.",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Hooghly",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "West Bengal Police (vehicle-check party, Shrirampur-Belur; PS Case No. 128 of 2003)",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur Woman v. State of West Bengal & Ors.",
 "case_number": "FMA No. 3613 of 2015 (Single Bench: W.P. No. 8925(W) of 2009)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "T.S. Sivagnanam",
  "Hiranmay Bhattacharyya"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2022-12-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "2003-09-03",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "West Bengal Police (vehicle-check party)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.5,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.54,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, West Bengal Police (vehicle-check party)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 35,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur man, age 35"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. At midnight on 3 September 2003, 35-year-old scrap dealer a G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur man was shot dead by Constable on G.T. Road for riding past a vehicle check; the constable was separately convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. An Executive Magistrate inquiry under the Police Regulations of Bengal found the firing wholly unjustified, brutal and excessive, but no follow-up action was taken. The Single Bench awarded Rs 3,00,000 in 2015 (paid only in 2016); the Division Bench held the Article 21 violation indisputably established and directed an additional Rs 5,00,000 (Rs 8,00,000 total) within 60 days, noting thirteen years of delay. Compensation recorded here is the Rs 5,00,000 ordered by this judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "At midnight on 3 September 2003, 35-year-old scrap dealer a G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur man was shot dead by Constable on G.T. Road for riding past a vehicle check; the constable was separately convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. An Executive Magistrate inquiry under the Police Regulations of Bengal found the firing wholly unjustified, brutal and excessive, but no follow-up action was taken. The Single Bench awarded Rs 3,00,000 in 2015 (paid only in 2016); the Division Bench held the Article 21 violation indisputably established and directed an additional Rs 5,00,000 (Rs 8,00,000 total) within 60 days, noting thirteen years of delay. Compensation recorded here is the Rs 5,00,000 ordered by this judgment.",
 "court_quote": "The Executive Magistrate's report which has been referred to by the learned Single Bench clearly shows that the writ petitioner's son was done to death by police personnel using a firearm and there was absolutely no justification to use the firearm and the same was held to be brutal and excessive.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Unjustified midnight shooting by constable (already life-convicted); HC added Rs 5L.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Other",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2022-12-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "FMA No. 3613 of 2015 (Single Bench: W.P. No. 8925(W) of 2009)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-028",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}